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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

Our traditional oil and gas philosophy does not have conservation as a crucial component, and we can ill afford to continue to spend billions of dollars which are not reflected in the improved human capital of our country.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.